While this is purely speculation, it’s always been clear that the Massachusetts Republican Party has always shunned her conservatives, and I wouldn’t be surprised if party chair Jennifer Nassour told Scott Brown not to be seen with the very conservative Tea Party that got him elected.
Last weekend’s Massachusetts Republican Convention displayed such traditional contempt for the state’s conservatives.
The Massachusetts Republican Party has nominated the most extreme pro-homosexual, anti-family candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor ever to run as Republicans for a state’s top offices. Predictably, the results were greeted by cheers in homosexual blogs and websites across the country. The delegates to the Massachusetts State Republican Convention last Saturday overwhelmingly nominated Charlie Baker for Governor and his hand-picked running mate Richard Tisei for Lt. Governor.
I met Baker at a Lincoln Day breakfast a few years ago, got his card, but he never responded to any of my requests to meet with him and discuss his hinted-at campaign for governor.
As some observers put it, the RINO takeover of the Massachusetts Republican party is now complete. Vast numbers of social conservatives essentially sold out their principles in favor of the party establishment’s wishes.
By shoving the conservative Massachusetts Republican Assembly (of which I was once vice-president) into a distant convention corner and endorsing the usual loser RINOs, the party and Scott Brown have again shown no problem with biting the hands that just fed them, and thus are doing the impossible: giving the stumbling Democrat incumbent Governor Deval Patrick the best chance for reelection.
I will definitely take your word for it.
Shit….as that old “STAR WARS” line goes…”I have a bad feeling about this”
If a RINO is your only option compared to a true-believing Democrat, go with the RINO. If everyone else does his job, there won’t be enough Democrats for the RINO to side with.
The problem is when the RINO gets in he or she vote with other Democrats, so what’s the point of voting for backstabbers in the first place?
My theory is that with a Republican majority, the RINO, knowing which way the wind is blowing, will vote with the Republicans. Whereas the Democrat will vote Democrat regardless.
When there is no pure Republican/Conservative choice, half a chance is better than no chance.
(However is there is a real Republican in the race, by all means, the RINO can go f-ck himself.)
Gotta get rid of the RINOs at the grass roots levels first, then start cleaning up the messes they made. It’s going to take some time, unfortunately. Pretty soon the Great Unwashed Masses are going to wake up, sooner rather than later.
Igor